My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The path to self-discovery requires acutely familiarity with your thoughts and desires.

The thought of an impending 'storm' that is accompanied with change is enough to send many fleeing to their confined box of predictability and familiarity.

Avoidance of mistakes may lead us to steer clear of new experiences and default to familiarity to reduce the chance of 'failure'. Society's definition of failure is misguided.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Of course the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6 000 million talking upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

In communications familiarity breeds apathy.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.